Keith W. Mines

Why Nation-Building Matters (eBook, PDF)

Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States

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Produktbeschreibung

No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism. Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In Why Nation-Building Matters he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nation's global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projects--in Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq-inform Mines's in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail. Building on that analysis, he establishes a framework for nation-building in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blend soft and hard power into an effective package. Grounded in real-world experience, Why Nation-Building Matters is an informed and essential guide to meeting one of the foremost challenges of our foreign policy present and future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640123397
• Artikelnr.: 72427509

Autorenporträt

Keith W. Mines is an active-duty U.S. Foreign Service officer, most recently serving as the director of Andean affairs at the Department of State in Washington, DC. He has published numerous articles in the Foreign Service Journal, Parameters, Orbis, the Baltimore Sun, the Denver Post, and with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface    
Introduction: Boots on the Ground, Wingtips in the Palace    
Part One. Cold War Low-Intensity Conflict
1. Colombia, 1978: A Battered State and a Dramatic Comeback    
2. Grenada, 1983: Rescuing a Hijacked Country    
3. El Salvador, 1984: Vaulting over Two Centuries of Development    
Part Two. Humanitarian Intervention and the Fragile State Circuit
4. Somalia, 1994: Resisting Nationhood    
5. Haiti, 1996: With a Lot of Help from My Friends    
6. Darfur, 2007: Beating Back a Genocide    
Part Three. 9/11 and the Challenge of Ungoverned Space
7. United States, 2001: Waking Up to New Threats on 9/11    
8. Afghanistan, 2002: Starting from Scratch    
9. Iraq, 2003: The Cornered Sunnis of Al Anbar    
10. Afghanistan, 2012: Progress and Challenge in the North    
Epilogue: Retooling the American Way of War    
Acknowledgments    
Notes    
Selected Bibliography    
Index